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Offline NIGCOUSKAZ

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2015, 05:11:35 AM »
I worked for them for 15 years, this is old/new news and a string of law suits to add to their history!

Offline Scunner

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2015, 08:34:11 AM »
So new news is old news if it happened somewhere else years ago.

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2015, 09:12:34 AM »
I had hoped that the title of the post would give a slight clue that it was about abuse of the English language. Obviously that failed miserably and it has been read as about some damned pills.

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2015, 09:21:07 AM »
Same old! Same old!  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2015, 11:12:41 AM »
It's heartening to see that Jacqui and KKOB are maintaining CBF's standards of intellectual discussion and banter!  Keep it going guys.............it always puts a smile on my face.   ;D  ;D  ;D

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2015, 11:29:25 AM »
Now, THAT exchange was blooming funny.

Thanks KKOB and Jacqui....... big, big smile throughout.

Colwyn - I feel your pain but who'd a thought shopping could be such fun.

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2015, 11:35:56 AM »
Well for those of us who didn't hear it months ago thanks for the story  :)

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2015, 13:59:33 PM »
It's heartening to see that Jacqui and KKOB are maintaining CBF's standards of intellectual discussion and banter!  Keep it going guys.............it always puts a smile on my face.   ;D  ;D  ;D

You're welcome.

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2015, 14:48:46 PM »
Hang on .. does this mean that all those adverts from Anadin that get in the way of The Chase, could in fact be the same pills in different boxes?  How surprising is that? : :)

Next thing you'll be telling me is that Night Nurse and other cold and flu 'remedies' are just paracetamol in liquid form or paracetomal given a fancy name and box.

The giant Pharma companies have been fooling most of the great British Public for years, and overcharging them for the privilege too.

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Re: Translation Required
« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2015, 15:03:59 PM »
And it gets worse. Jelly babies aren't made from real babies; and tapioca isn't really frog spawn. However, spotted dick is actually made from ...




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